The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-01
A WEEK IN CONGRESS-.
WHAT WAS DONE In Th2 HOUSE
hxSa tAyD SENATE. -. -, -.
A Syndicate OF Spectators Trying
to Secure a Franchise Cover
Ing the Whole City
FOR THE OPER tTION fOF CABLE
RAILROADS:
The British Lions Tail 20 Be Screwed
Again, This lime by the Patriotic
Members OF the House.
lsrnoIAL TO rHR-AppKIL.I

ESPECIAL TO THR.APPELL.I
0YFfcE OF THE MEMPHIS APPEAL, No
ola TaIRTKKsTH STREET, WASHINGTON,
d. O., January 3l.-The amount OF
legislation accomplished in the House
Of Representatives during the past
week is almost nothing. Monday was
private bill day, and nothing was
done. Tuesday was spent in discuss
ing the Rhode Island contested cleo.
ton case, and the result OF the days
work wss the quitting from his seat OF
a man Mr. Pierce) who has been a
member OF the House two years, lack
ing month, and hes drawn his sal
ary right along. Wednesday was the
only day for which there was some
Thing TO show. BY sharp parliament
ary practice, exhibited in a way sel-
dom adopted in the House OF Repre-
sentatives, the Committee on Rivers
and Harbors, and the friends Of the
appropriation bill reported by that
mnittee, succeeded in taking the
bill from the Committee OF the Whole
without the changing OF line or
word, and in forcing II TO aplace
where there WAS nothing to be done
but to call the roll on lis passage. 1t
would have been passed that night,
only that II was not eugyossed, and
the request for the reading OF the en-.
crossed bill could not be complied
with. On Thursday the river
and harbor bill YVES passed, and the
rest OF the time OF the House
was occupied by tho consideration OF q
measure by means OF which
SYNDICATE OF sPRCULAToRs
in franchises hopes to secure the
right to gridiron the whole city OF
Washington with cable street rail.
ways. The men who are behind the
Job had a large lobby at work over
coming the objections OF legislators
who know that almost without excep-
ton every owner OF property on the
scores Of beautiful streets and avenues
which the syndicate is trying to seize,
is strongly opposed to this measure.
The bill proposes practically to turn
over the entire city to the syndicate,
without charging cent for the fran
chiee, and the people have good
reason 10 fear that II the spectators
succeed In the House they will find II
easy to rush the bill through the
Senate, where sympathy with all
measures desired by railroad corpora.
tions is much more strongly devel-
optd than In the House.
THE SENATE
has quite a lively record for the past
week for such q slow moving body. II
started In on Monday by passing with
only one dissenting vote the bill to
su.horizs the President ITO protect
and defend the rights OF American
fishing vessels, American fishermen,
American trading and other vessels In
certain cases." The one disssnter was
Senator Riddleberger for reasons
which II ia supposed are satisfactory
to him, although II Ia hardly TO DO ex-
perted that he knows why he voted
mo" The discussion which pre-
coded the pafsage OF the bill was long,
and az times IL smacked a good deal OF
sort OF Fourth Of July spread eagle.
lam that Is more often hearI In the
House than in the Senate. England
was denounced In a way that must
have tickled soma OF her enemies, aud
Mr.. ingalls, made speech which led
TO the suggestion that he had taken up
the role OF tail-twirler.in chief OF
THE BRITISH LION
vacated by the enforced retirement of
"RichelIeu" Robinson from the halls
Of Congress. Mr.. Frye, too, made
spesoh 80 warmly patriotic that he
may count with reasonable certainty
upon having won the good will OF the
fishermen OF the East. IL was fire..
quently asserted during the debate
that the bill was declaration to
Great Britain that she would continue
her present practices at her peril, and
that II continued the result would be
war. Mr.. Ingalls, went 30 far to say
that the bill virtually gave to the
President the right TO declare war
against Great Britain, aud quoted
from the committees report and
the bill In support OF his assertion.
Whether Mr.. Ingalls, was speaking
t. the galleries" 10 some of the En.
glish papers declare, or not, the effect
OF bis words and those OF Mr.. Frye,
toe, ler with the unanimous consent
OF the Senate (for Riddlebereer can
hardly be counted part OF the Senate)
10 the passage of the bill, has had it's
effect upon thu Houee. As these dis.
patches have already indicated, the
Honss iutends to make the bill at II
more strong than II now is. and
direct instead of "autho ize" the
President to adopt retaliat ry meas
uTts toward Canada.
Another disappointment was added
10 the long list which members OF the
NATIONAL woMRN's SUFFRAGE AtsoolA-
TON
have already been called upon 10 suf-
Ter when the Senate ON Tuesday, after
listening {, Mr.. Blair and Mr.. Hoar
expatiste upon the many blessings to
be derived from extending the ballot
10 the gentler sex, refus d by vote of
% to 10 to grant the longed for boon.
There were at the time OF the debate
number OF woman Buffragists Ia the
galleries listening to their champions
on tha floor, but when the vote vas
announced they hurried away with
long faces and very poor opinion OF
men in general aud Senators in partic-
u'ar.
Having disposed Of this interesting
question for another Congress the
Republican Senate, led by Mr.. Hoav,
organizad a grand hunt on Wednes-
day for bloody shirt mate
rial with which to make war
fare on the Democrats during the
next Presidential campaign. The
search has this time begun rather ear
lier than usual, but the Republicans
ara always ready to wave tue bloody
Rnirt. Three white residents OF Wash
iueton county, Texas, declared that
solely because they were Republicans
they had been driven from their
homes by political prosecutions and
tpAt murders and various other oat-
RACES and crimes hEd been committed
in their cou lty in order to deprive the
majority OF tbs voters OF the right Of
sufirIee. One of the charges they
make is thst three colored
REPUBLICANS WE'RE HANGED BY KUKLux